Horizontal Magazine Upgrade

In today’s competitive environment and the ever increasing demand to reduce the cost of packaging and its impact on the environment, the type and design of the packaging used today has evolved. Customers who have existing GEA Avapac packaging equipment can enhance the performance and functionality of their plants by carrying out upgrades.

Upgrading your existing packaging equipment can be a very cost effective alternative to replacing entire units or systems.

As the use of thin bags has increased the issues related with handling them have also increased. The thin bag can be difficult to stack in a vertical magazine, as it can be flimsy and not self supporting. This can result in packaging loses and increased operator intervention, due to dropped or damaged bags.

To overcome these issues experienced with the vertical bag stack, GEA Avapac has developed a horizontal stack magazine upgrade. Replacing the existing vertical stack bag infeed and pull down arm with a new horizontal stack bag magazine and bag pick-up arm. The new horizontal magazine will have a capacity of approx. 100 bags (depending on type). The GEA Avapac horizontal stack magazine upgrade is functionally very similar to our BP-800, the upgrade combines the tried and proven design of picking up the bag from a horizontal stack retro-fitted into an existing Bag Presenter.

We have received positive feedback regarding the performance gains and increased reliability of this upgrade from various sites, as the number of bags being dropped on the floor has reduced significantly. After carrying out the upgrade there has been a reduction in packaging losses and the need for operator intervention, to remove dropped or damaged bags.

Features:

  • Bags stacked laying flat on a horizontal magazine
  • Automatic de-stacking of the bags, via the new bag pick-up arm
  • Bag magazine capacity: 100 bags approx. (depending on type)
  • Flexibility to handle a range of different bag sizes
  • New design presenter arms

Benefits:

  • The ability to handle thin and flimsy bags, without creasing or damage
  • Increased magazine bag capacity, reducing operator input
  • Increased performance and reliability (Cost saving)
  • Increased output, due to fewer machine stoppages
  • Reduce packaging losses, due to dropped bags or bag damages
  • Reduced operator intervention, due to dropped bags
  • New horizontal magazine safe and simple to reload